Google Inadequacies
Much as I'm impressed by some aspects of Google - some things are just not quite good enough.
1. China - ruined their reputation in my eyes
2. Google Calendar - does not allow you to classify or label events, and no use of colour to code events visually. This makes it not as good as Palm's calendar programme and will stop me using it unless I have to
3. Google Mail - using it really has advantage of portability and the labelling system is quite good but Google Mail has the following problems:
a. Sometimes it is very slow, and sometimes it stops
b. No easy way of backing up emails to hard disc - making you reliant on a commercial system who may or may not look after your data.
c. Although labels and conversations are often a very good idea - sometimes they are not. Sometimes you do want to shunt a whole load of emails into a folder not just label them. Sometimes important mails are lost in a long conversations, making it hard to easily get to important emails.
1. China - ruined their reputation in my eyes
2. Google Calendar - does not allow you to classify or label events, and no use of colour to code events visually. This makes it not as good as Palm's calendar programme and will stop me using it unless I have to
3. Google Mail - using it really has advantage of portability and the labelling system is quite good but Google Mail has the following problems:
a. Sometimes it is very slow, and sometimes it stops
b. No easy way of backing up emails to hard disc - making you reliant on a commercial system who may or may not look after your data.
c. Although labels and conversations are often a very good idea - sometimes they are not. Sometimes you do want to shunt a whole load of emails into a folder not just label them. Sometimes important mails are lost in a long conversations, making it hard to easily get to important emails.
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